I need your advice guys:
Now there’s only 2 of us in a team of what should be 4 people. I’m the high performer of the 2 of us. Significantly.
I have the most difficult clients and have the most responsibility.
Next Thursday my probation ends.
I am underpaid 25-30k compared to the same role elsewhere.
Should I attempt a negotiation of salary?
I’m crowd sourcing opinions. I’ve never done this before. I’m in a really strong position as I will no doubt be training any new staff, and will get the most difficult client of the guy who just quit.
Do it. Ask A Manager has some good advice on how.
it’s often easier to get a new position than get a raise
and what happens if the boss says no? will there be repercussions against you?
They can’t afford to have a go at me. If I leave, or they try to push me out, they’re utterly screwed. I have very strong relationships with my clients and they will be very upset if I leave.
it’s always easier to negotiate during the start and middle of a client job, not near the end.
I dunno, the end of probation seems like the perfect time to ask, to me
You totally should.
You could broach it as expectations of the role/output given you’ve lost a team member. Their response should give you a pretty good indication of whether they’ll come to the party.
IT People: not really big on small-talk. 😀
Love it!!!
Ha! I don’t work in IT and I need one of those 😂
Just met my new manager. Seems like a nice guy. Let’s see how nice he is next week when I ask for a raise.
Ripped my boardies riding back from the beach last night. The bum seam from sitting on the seat. They’re very old. So with a bit of poor sewing, some stitchofix fabric adhesive stuff and some duct tape (lol) we’re going to see if it holds tonight. Should probably bin them but i just want to see if it works.
people standing on the beach “My, there’s a lovely moon out!”
When his cheeks hit your eye
From board shorts gone awry
That’s a moon, ey?
Just so long as the duct tape doesn’t go awry and get stuck to your nethers…
First day back in my course tonight. I have like 10 mins til I need to begin the process of getting on (involves multiple sign ons and OTPs, eugh). Haven’t used my laptop since before I moved, so windows has decided that I HAVE to do updates. Started 5 minutes ago, and we’re only 4%.
FFS windows.
Loving this music from the movie, Knight of Cups. Exodus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qYBw2zf0Kg
it’s a 4 hobbit movie, so beautiful,
I’m not sure what it’s about, seems to be someone drifting through place, time, experience, people and emotions . The only time he spoke of his life was when he spoke of the experience of a loving relationship.
Hot tea being spilled left and right at work today, I love hearing the drama when I’m not a part of it!
☕💅🏼
Holidays are officially over - just got my first debt collection call of the year.
Optus sold my debt to them, I never paid my last bill due to the Optus data leaks. Sorry not sorry.
I’m never gonna buy a house or anything, or take out a loan, so why should I care? Besides that, my only debts are HECS/HELP and my TAFE fee (which I pay in installments by DD every month).
YOLO 🤷🏼♀️
I’ve got something outstanding (student union stuff) from latrobe uni from about 10 yrs ago. $111. they sent it to me 5 years after finishing the course lol. No letter, no email. Just sold it off to billchaser. 5 years! Get spammed every few days over sms. I should block the # but they make me feel loved. I ain’t payin’.
Lol, is it even worth their time for a bit over a hundred bucks?
Though they’ve probably sacked most of their staff and automated it all, if you’re just getting SMSs
Defs automated. Latrobe has had its financial struggles over the years so no surprise they’re selling debt.
I don’t really like the vibe of Latrobe (admittedly as an outsider that’s never been in one). Their campuses just seem unnecessarily large. Not necessarily by student numbers, just size. And half of it is empty space
The kid’s gone away for 3 nights and ngl I’m actually excited.
naked drunk pizza party!
All the good things rolled into one there!
There’s a kfc ad where the party goers are dancing and eating at the same time. I’ve never done that even while pissed. Not that I’m aware of anyway.
I do a GREAT awkward shuffle with a doughnut in my hand as I discovered at the last wedding I attended.
😂
I mean we’ve all done a little happy food dance from time to time but these idiots were full on raging with a drumstick in hand. No one loves kfc that much.
Also it’s always a drumstick. Never a shitty breast or micro wing.
I dunno. I train with some islander lads, that would dance with food. Not stereotyping, they’re just happy party people that like to eat.
😂
There’s that joke about a van load of kiwis going through the drive thru and the driver orders a bucket, a few sides and 1.25Lt Pepsi and then turns around in his seat and says “ok kids. What do you guys want”?
Turns out it’s actually true.
Alright, doctor booked for this stupid migraine thing. Gonna get the physio to take a look as well.
Mine came from a shoulder injury.
thats just it, no new injury or anything like that I’m aware of. So I figured getting assessed isnt a bad idea.
Good plan. I’ve had MRIs, CTs, a lumbar puncture and all sorts of fun. And regular eye tests are worthwhile- apparently weird eye pressure can manifest in interesting ways.
They’ve never found anything useful on all my tests but it’s always good to know it’s ‘just’ migraine and not a brain tumor or something exciting like that. And there are better migraine drugs coming out now.
Getting assessed it a great idea! In my early 20s I had months of chronic exploding head migraines, auras, blindness, vomiting from pain. Had an MRI and CT scan with nothing there. Dr gave me a big fat script for codeine - I understand why people get addicted to it, let’s put it that way.
Determined it was stress induced from living with my unmedicated schizophrenic mum 😂 haven’t had them like that since I moved out and went NC. There so many factors that can cause migraines, so getting checked out is always a fantastic idea!
Fingers crossed it’s nothing serious!! 💜💜
That’s definitely a good idea mate. Also I would press for an MRI as well. For peace of mind.
So here’s the gossip.
One of the remaining 3 (of which i am one) account managers resigned.
So his clients get divided up between me and the other one.
Yay.
can you decline?
Nope. Not with my probation 10 days away.
So what happens after your probation ends in 10 days?
What options do you have at that point?
I have a better position to negotiate as they can’t just fire me on the spot.
And now that I’m one of only 2 account managers it strengthens my bargaining position. This team should have 4 people. Not 2.
Ah ok. Will you stay or look for another place?
Seems like the place is being gutted at the moment.
I need to stay long enough to move house. It’s near impossible to be approved for a rental whilst on probation.
Please tell me they are at least openly looking for another?! You’re already stretched so thin!
Who knows. I only found out because my co worker told me. Nothing from management about it.
Of course not! Just keep breathing, probation is nearly up!
I found emails from a director here to customers advising that someone had left the business 2 hours before it was announced to staff.
This happened in December and they haven’t said anything to us. Which is pretty bad…
That’s so shit!
lovely day here, think I might go to bunnings and get some orchid mix :)
I have stuff to do but I might take a break for a few days
Could you grab me a roll of fallopian tubing and a metric adjustable spanner?
on train
one guy singing what sounds like a prayer softly to himself
one woman on the phone in English but switches to demon beast growling occasionallyYou could have said Hello. I’d have stopped growling then.
Maybe there are no words in English to express what she needs to say. Or there’s a demon beast on the other end…
Had a great time in Melbourne. The Jurassic World exhibition was a lot of fun. Took little one into the city and the National Art Gallery which she enjoyed.
But more importantly, Slurpees were a hit and she is more convinced than ever to move back to Melbourne.
shoulda sold her on the aldi middle isle. thats what gets my inlaws haha
How far is too far to travel for a job?
I saw an ad for a job that’s about 45 minutes one way by car (non-peak) and around an hour and a half by PTV. It is similar to my former uni commute in peak times. It would only be for two days a week so maybe it wouldn’t be that bad.
More than 30 mins by vehicle.
I used to go to a specialist high school a 15 min drive away from where I was living. About an hour and 15 by PT, but I usually preferred to take a simpler way with less running (required to make those connections), which bumped it up to about an hour and a half to an hour 45 depending on how fucked the trains were that particular morning.
I think that personally an hour and a half on a train is okay, 2h max, but if it’s peak hour and a packed train, that drastically goes down and reduces to about half an hour. By car, I’d be okay with an hour as a passenger, but 30 minutes would probably be my preferred limit as a driver. But I’m still a learner, so by the time I was a full license holder, I would probably be okay with an hour as a driver as well
I guess it also depends on a few other things, though. How’d you find the uni commute? Did you find it draining? I ask because some people find travelling alone to be draining, and if you’re going to waste half your energy on trying not to road rage in a traffic jam, do you really want that to immediately precede your work? Or are you the sort of person that finds that kind of useful - like a chance to listen to a bit of pump up music and invigorate some energy into yourself before getting on the grind for the rest of the day?
Another thing to think of: what’s your start time, and how much time do you need each morning? Personally, I need at least an hour in the morning before I can tolerate human interaction, and about 20 before I’ve officially woken up from sleep. So if I had an 8am start time and 45 minute commute, I’d round that up to an hour for a bit of margin, and then I’d be waking up between 6-6:30 each day. But I also know people who’ll get up as soon as their alarm goes off, take a quick 5 minute dunny run, 2 minute shower, then they’re out the door less than 10 minutes after waking up
It’s completely personal. For me a 45 min drive twice a week would be completely ok, especially for the right job. Easy actually. Lots of people do this or more everyday. I wouldn’t do the 1.5hr PT, double the commute time isn’t appealing since I have car and don’t mind driving. But if I didn’t have the car option might be ok for twice a week. 1.5hrs each way 5 days a week would probably be a no for me at this point in my work life. But entirely depends on how good this opportunity is for you. Is it something not easily found, or good pay, chance to progress your career etc?
Depends on how many days in the office. I gottta commute into town ends up being ~1.5 hours door to door 1 way. Fine twice a week, but any more than that starts to become pretty unfeasible.
Only something you can answer for yourself.
I’ve known people who have driven from point cook to get into work though admittedly it wasn’t the best logistically.
It’s what you can tolerate and how badly you want the job or need the money.
An hour each way is bearable I think, but does depend on a few things.
If I’m driving for an hour, I want to be driving. Not sitting in traffic. Used to work in Geelong and it was like an hour door to door. It was great, but also going against traffic.
It’s doable. As long as there’s parking you can make the drive work for yourself and it’s good to know you can get there by public transport if necessary.
If you were doing that trip more than 2 days it would suck
That would be my limit personally (if that driving is not stop start). I did 2 days /week with a similar driving commute except it was 45 min peak, I was able to handle it but I absolutely wouldn’t have done an extra day - did turn that down when it was offered. Eventually left it in favour of a job with a 5-15 min commute and I wouldn’t trade it for the world…
